Re: ndxCards

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Note: This message is from the outliners.com archive kindly provided by Dave Winer.

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Posted by graham.smith
2005-07-22 05:31:18

>I am increasingly leaning to using ndxCards as a writing environment.

I am also constantly going through some sort of rationalisation :-(

The 1.93 beta (which has just come off beta so presumably should soon be the current release) offers an edited book as source option. plus the ability to import and export to EndNote. This uses the REFER format so should work with other bibliographic programs.

Brainstorm also allows multiple open windows and is probably a better overall tool for thinking/writing, but is not as useful as a database.

As with you, I am very impressed with ndxCards, but I am finding that it overlaps considerably with Zoot and Brainstorm, and I am having problems deciding where it should sit in my workflow. The really big advantage of Zoot over everything else I have used is the way you can almost instantly hoover data into it. ndxCards is more versatile in the types of data it can store, but much much slower at adding and retreiving data than Zoot.

ndxCards is however, very good at structuring data into an Outline that could form the basis of lecture (as you have found out)but I tend to want to do that in Brainstorm or Mind Manager.

However, I do think that ndxCards is a great program and I am desperately trying to work out how best to fit it in with my other programs :-(

Graham

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